The Last of Us S1E03 - Long Long Time
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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In this episode of Decoding TV, David Chen and Christian Spicer discuss season 1 episode 3 of HBO’s The Last Of Us. Every single episode of this show has been better than the last. Has the show finally peaked? We don’t know but either way, this was a tremendous episode of television.
How effectively did the show depict the relationship between Bill and Frank? Is this show’s vision of the American government a realistic one? And what was up with that weird scene between Ellie and that dude in the basement? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Look, I've been thinking about I wasn't going to say I'm sorry. I was going to say that I've been thinking about what happened |
| 0:07.0 | Nobody made your test take me. Nobody made you go along with this plan. You needed a truck battery or whatever and you made a choice |
| 0:15.3 | So don't blame me for something that isn't my fault |
| 0:20.1 | Hello, everyone and welcome to decoding TV a podcast about television. I am David Jen and I'm Christian Spicer |
| 0:27.7 | Today on decoding TV we are going to be covering the last of us |
| 0:32.2 | Season one episode three last of us season one episode three entitled long long time |
| 0:40.6 | You can find more episodes of this podcast at podcast.deco.tv.com email us at decodingtv at gmail.com |
| 0:47.0 | And find us on tiktok twitter and youtube and Instagram at decoding TV |
| 0:53.9 | Christian Spicer |
| 0:56.0 | It has been a |
| 0:58.0 | Really fun time to do this podcast with you |
| 0:59.9 | We've gotten a lot of great feedback about the podcast a lot of people following along emailing us at decodingtv at gmail.com |
| 1:06.6 | And I think it's also worth noting that it is fair to say at this point that the last of us the TV show is a phenomenon |
| 1:14.5 | I think the second episode scored 5.7 million viewers |
| 1:19.8 | Which is I think the biggest growth for like an episode one to episode two in terms of viewership |
| 1:26.6 | Ever basically like one of the highest numbers that's ever been notched in that regard and so this is not only a show that debuted really strong |
| 1:35.4 | It's a show that is continuing to grow in a big way |
| 1:38.4 | Any reactions to that Christian? I mean, I think it shows how this show has established itself as |
| 1:45.6 | Event viewing and water cooler viewing in a way |
| 1:49.4 | Euphoria as another HBO show that I think is really well done |
| 1:53.0 | But I found that conversation at least when I was following along people almost came to it at the end of seasons or came to it later after it aired and it's like |
| 2:01.3 | Oh my gosh, did you follow along what happened with this? |
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